Bernard Jeanson

Pi

(1934 - 1968, France)

Bernard Jeanson was a French press illustrator and cartoonist, who also signed with Pi. He worked for several magazines and papers during the 1950s and 1960s, such as Humour Magazine, Boléro, Le Canard Enchaîné, L'Almanach Vermot, Ici-Paris, Radar, Paris-Flirt and Le Rire. He was the creator of the comic 'Les Aventures de Toto Bulldozer', about a little globetrotting Breton, of which six books were published by Éditions Rouff in 1959 and 1960. He was also present in Le Journal des Pieds Nickelés with 'Les soeurs Galurin', shortly before his suicide in 1968.